18:012:011 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? 18:012:012 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 18:012:013 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. 18:012:014 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 18:012:015 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 18:012:016 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. 18:012:017 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. 18:012:018 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. 18:012:019 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. 18:012:020 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. 18:012:021 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty. 18:012:022 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. 18:012:023 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. 18:012:024 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. 18:012:025 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. 18:013:001 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 18:013:002 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 18:013:003 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 18:013:004 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 18:013:005 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 18:013:006 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 18:013:007 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 18:013:008 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 18:013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 18:013:010 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 18:013:011 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 18:013:012 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 18:013:013 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. 18:013:014 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 18:013:015 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.